The United States sends military aid to Ukraine

The embassy published pictures showing the unloading of the plane. She was the first of several shipments. This “demonstrates the strong commitment of the United States to Ukraine’s sovereign right of self-defense.”

Russia has repeatedly called on Ukraine not to continue amassing weapons as this would inflame military tensions and could encourage the country to attack Donbass in the east of the former Soviet republic in order to retake the breakaway parts of Luhansk and Donetsk regions. . Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his American colleague Anthony Blinken only met Friday for crisis talks in Geneva.

Recently, the Kremlin strongly criticized the delivery of light anti-tank weapons from Great Britain to Ukraine. The Baltic states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania now also want to send US anti-tank missiles and anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine. The background is the intense tensions in the conflict in Ukraine and fears in the West that Russia might attack the neighboring country. Moscow has already rejected this several times.